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Meantime in Topeka, Alf Landon had been up at 5 a. m. Not stopping to shave, he put on a white linen suit with unaccustomed vest, swallowed his breakfast, hurried downtown to meet his agricultural experts. First hitch in his plan for an unobtrusive progress to Des Moines was the presence of four carloads of newshawks and photographers set to trail him. Three times along the 270-mile way the procession stopped at filling stations. At small Leon, Iowa, Governor Landon spied a barbershop in a hotel basement, hopped out for a shave. Afterwards he shook hands with most...
Back in the Kansas capital, where he planned to stay until his drought conference with President Roosevelt this week, Alf Landon released a press statement: "I return to Topeka deeply gratified with my first trip of the 1936 campaign. . . . Everywhere, despite differences in geography, the people are undoubtedly interested in good government. . . . This is as it should be. It is the American...
Ever since Publisher William Randolph Hearst visited Governor Alf Landon in Topeka last December, found the Kansas candidate to his liking and ordered his newspaper chain to support him full blast, there has been a Hearst issue in the 1936 Presidential campaign.* Not until last week, however, did the Democratic high command choose to bring this two-edged issue out of the political shadows, use it directly against the Republican nominee...
...respect to the Landon-Hearst alliance will not be denied. Mr. Hearst is on such intimate terms with the candidate that he can even venture ... to express his opinion as to what he believes the Governor feels. ... Up to the time that Mr. Hearst made his historic visit to Topeka, Governor Landon was an ardent New Dealer. Apparently a Hearst silencer had been applied to him. How otherwise explain the Republican candidate's elocutionary efforts? He may 'condemn' in conventional fashion, he may 'view with alarm,' but this seems to be the limit beyond which...
Satisfied with his record-breaking political leap from the large charge that Hearst bosses Landon to the pipsqueak proof that Hearst advised against too many Landon speeches, Secretary Ickes concluded: "Hearst over Topeka! Do the American people want it to be Hearst over the White House...